Niche Review Blogs

Let’s take a look at how the niche review template blogs that I set up are optimized for search engines.

As part of the set up, there are several useful plugins that will be installed and activated in your blog. One of them is ‘All in One SEO Pack’ plugin which is all that’s needed for the blog’s SEO.

Homepage

The META title, description and keywords for the homepage of the blog can be set by visiting the plugins settings page.

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Posts and Pages

For individual Pages and posts, the plugin inserts fields to enter META title, description and keywords when you are creating/editing the post/Page.

The Title field can be left blank as the post/Page title will be automatically set as META title. If you do want to override that and enter your own META title, that can be done so by filling the Title field.

Conclusion: A WordPress blog is search engine friendly out of the box unlike a static HTML site. With All in One SEO Pack, it’s very simple to set META info for homepage and the content (posts/Pages) of the blog.

Sridhar Katakam Niche Review Templates SEO

I have been getting emails about what exactly is the WordPress framework like for the blogs I set up every month from Niche Review Templates. So here in this article I shall give a glimpse of that.

The blog I set up will have:

- Home page
- 3 Review Pages
- 10 Article Pages
- 1 Blog Post (created by WordPress by default)
- Privacy, Sitemap, Contact Pages

Blog

Let’s take an example, http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com. The blog (date-wise listing of posts in descending order) is at http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com/blog. One might assume that this is achieved by setting up a plain HTML homepage at / (root of the site, in this case http://www.surveysformoneyreviewed.com) and installing WordPress at /blog directory. But that’s not how it actually is. Thanks to the combination of custom Page templates, the ability to set any Page as homepage and permalinks features of WordPress, the entire site uses just one installation of WordPress.

This is a very optimized way of setting up the site because we have pretty much like static review type content on the homepage whereas you can keep your site regularly updated by writing blog posts that appear at /blog (Google loves this). So from a SEO point of view, it’s all good.

Sidebar

The latest 10 site Pages automatically appear in the sidebar. What this means is that if you create a new WordPress Page, its title will automatically show up in the sidebar with a clickable link that takes the visitor to that Page. If you happen to create a Page that you don’t want to appear in the sidebar it’s very easy to hide that particular Page from appearing in the sidebar.

Also the sidebar is set to show the latest 5 blog posts automatically. So there’s no manual editing of any file to have your latest content (link) displayed on the homepage.

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